Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent nebula  ·  NGC 6888
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The Crescent Nebula, Don Walters
The Crescent Nebula
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The Crescent Nebula

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This one didn't have the kind of detail I was hoping for, considering all the images of this object I've seen. But I had plenty of subs and good long exposure. So I'm not sure how I could have gotten more out of it. The subs were good quality and I was able to stack 100% of them.

When I saturated the colors, I found it was causing the stars to have some crazy colors, so I had to use a mask to saturate only the nebula. I used Morphological Transformation to subdue the stars because they were so overwhelming. This really helped the nebula details to become more obvious.

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The Crescent Nebula, Don Walters